RESET UK has signed directing duo Dorian & Daniel. This move provides representation continuity on both sides of the Atlantic as Dorian & Daniel have a longstanding relationship with RESET in the U.S. Dorian & Daniel made a dramatic entry into the industry with their celebrated spec ad “Dear Brother” for Johnnie Walker, which they created during their time at film school. The film told a rich, emotional story so powerful that it racked up over a million online views on its first day and has exceeded over 20 million views to date. Since graduating, Dorian & Daniel have created work for major brands and agencies around the world–using their two brains and four eyes to create poetic stories for brands including Sony, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung and Peugeot. Dorian & Daniel have won awards across the globe at all major international advertising festivals. Their “Love Hurts” spot for Samsung–which told the unlikely romance between a spider and a phone–won five pencils at D&AD, a Gold and three Silver Clios, two Gold and a Silver Lion at Cannes (including the first Gold Film Lion for Germany in nine years). Creators Inc represents the RESET directors roster in the U.K., EMEA and Asia….
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More